• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Everyone knows what you mean when you say that lobbying should be illegal.

    Could you explain?

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      7 months ago

      Probably the part where they’re straight-up bribing politicians to rubber stamp the garbage that ALEC writes.

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      7 months ago

      Lobbying as in “bribery with extra steps” where companies give money to politicians, ask them to do something, then say it’s ok because it’s “lobbying” and therefore not bribery, but people are coming in and pointing out how lobbying technically just means talking to politicians, but that’s not what RotatingParts meant.

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        7 months ago

        Isn’t the problem that the “extra steps” are loopholes?

        And legal loopholes are like a hydra. Close one and the lawyers will open up two more.

        I imagine the line is hard to draw. But of course, the ones doing the drawing of that line are also on the receiving end of the good stuff, so there’s incentives to not close those loopholes…